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Top Deceased Economists, as of March 2026

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  • 1173 deceased authors have been identified, about 1.60% of all authors
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Rank Author Score
1Alberto Alesina †3.76
2Gary S. Becker †4.16
3Robert E. Lucas, Jr. †4.99
4Martin S. Feldstein †5.41
5Alan B. Krueger †6.14
6Michael C. Jensen †6.31
7Christopher Sims †11.03
8Edward C. Prescott †11.13
9Clive W. J. Granger †13.58
10Daniel Kahneman †14.55
11Martin Ravallion †14.57
12Zvi Griliches †14.85
13Stanley Fischer †17.37
14Halbert White †17.98
15Martin L. Weitzman †18.60
16Jean-Jacques Laffont †19.24
17Paul A. Samuelson †19.28
18Edward Lazear †19.32
19Gary Charness †21.12
20Emmanuel Farhi †21.63
21Jacob Mincer †22.03
22Anthony Barnes Atkinson †23.28
23Julio Rotemberg †26.03
24Rüdiger Dornbusch (Rudiger Dornbusch) †26.15
25Sherwin Rosen †26.47
26William Baumol †26.65
27Stephen A. Ross †28.25
28Jonathan Eaton †28.93
29Michael McAleer †29.02
30Dale Jorgenson †29.13
31Robert M. Solow †29.20
32Bennett T. McCallum †29.27
33Kenneth J. Arrow †29.82
34Mike Wright †33.10
35Milton Friedman †34.04
36Richard R. Nelson †34.91
37Martin Shubik †39.66
38Allan H. Meltzer †41.57
39Takatoshi Ito †43.80
40George J. Stigler †44.12
41Dale T. Mortensen †44.98
42J. Peter Neary †49.08
43Oliver E. Williamson †50.37
44David Schmeidler †50.51
45James Tobin †51.06
46John Roberts †52.07
47Bruce D. Smith †52.36
48Edward E. Leamer †55.01
49Gary Chamberlain †58.28
50Alex Cukierman †58.86
51John M. Quigley †60.04
52Assar Lindbeck †69.51
53Philippe Martin †70.93
54Mike Tsionas †72.56
55Charles I. Plosser †74.02
56James P. Smith †74.20
57S. Rao Aiyagari †74.30
58Stephen Knack †75.42
59David Dollar †76.36

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard Arnott, David Backus, Nicholas Crafts, Guesnerie Roger, Jack Hirshleifer, Edward J. Kane, Ngo Van Long, James A. Mirrlees, Douglass C. North, Wallace E. Oates, Gert G. Wagner,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Thomas Cooley, Ronald H. Coase, Paul A. David, Harold Demsetz, John Enrico DiNardo, Richard A. Easterlin, Robert John LaLonde, John Leahy, C. A. Knox Lovell, John McMillan, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Finis Welch,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank, James M. Buchanan, Marvin Goodfriend, John Kagel, Stephan Klasen, Robert E. Lipsey, Roberto S. Mariano, Merton H. Miller, Elinor Ostrom, Herbert Simon, T. N. Srinivasan,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari, Ansgar Belke, Peter F. Christoffersen, Herschel I. Grossman, Steven Klepper, Loet Leydesdorff, Harry M. Markowitz, Ronald I. McKinnon, John Morgan, Franco Modigliani, Piet Rietveld, Agnar Sandmo,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Jacques H. Dreze, Victor R. Fuchs, Victor A. Ginsburgh, Peter Gottschalk, Ronald W. Jones, Nicholas M. Kiefer, Michael Louis Mussa, Roy Radner, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Clement Tisdell, Shlomo Yitzhaki,
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